Medical Economics September 8, 2020
While we take stock of successes and failures, we are once again reminded that the US healthcare system isn’t built for everyone.
There is no shortage of examples highlighting how our healthcare system has failed – or at least could have done better – since COVID-19 took hold back in March. There are many reasons for this failure and many of them actually existed before COVID. The pandemic simply exposed the deficiencies in infrastructure, supply chain, equity and technology that we all hope will serve as lessons and guides for future strategic planning and investment.
There have been successes. Take the swift adoption of telehealth and providers’ dedication to redesigning and reconfiguring how and where they deliver care....